Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-09-22
Balls Bluff, Va.

Balls Bluff, Va. $50 Hampton, Va. Asa
Barrancas, Fla. 955 Jefferson bar
Baton Rouge, La. 2,S22 racks, St. Louis $40
Beaufort, S. c.. ,2i9 Keokuk- IA. $50
Beverly, " ] 49,. 145 Knoxville, Tenn. 3,061
Brownsville, Tex. 2,967 Laurel, Md. 2SS
Camp Butler, near Lebanon. Ky. SAT
Springfield Ills. Go7 Logan's Cross
GIMP Nelson. Mich Roads, Ky. Ca
olasville, KY. asses Loudon Park, Nd. 1866
Cave Hill, Marietta, Ca. Io,052
Louisville, Ky. 3,T4 Memphis. Tenn. Il, S3s
Chalmette, n. O., ~ 21 Mobile, Ala. SO
Chattanooga -. 1898 Mound City, Ills. 5000
City Point, Va. 3,S2S Nashville, Tenn. 1888
Cold Harbor, Va. 1,e4l Natchez, Miss. 5000
Corinth, Miss. $50 New Albany. Ind 2,75S
Crown Hill, near Newbern, y. c.. 23lS
Indianapolis. 70S Philadelphia, Pa. 1912
Culpepper, Va. 1,34S Poplar Grove Va. 5525
Clusters battle Port Hudson, Miss. 1854
field, NJ. t.. $50 Raleigh, y. c.. 1859
Cypress Hill, on Richmond, Va. ASS
l.. n. ". 3,115 Rock Island, Ills. $50
City of Mexico. 1904 Salisbury, n. C. -. 12o
Danville, va. ,293 Shiloh, TENN. $3.50
Danville, ky. 359 San Antonio, Tex. 4,3
Elmira, n. Y =. 3,995 Seven Pines, Va. 80
Firms Point, M. 2,79 Soldiers HomeO. 5,23S
Florence, S. c.. 1855 Springfield, No.. 1873
Fort Donelsou... $50 Stone River, Tenn. e.063
Fort Gibson, l. 7. 2,152 Vicksburg, Miss. 1905
Fort Harrison,Va 2J6 Whitehall, Pa. =. 90
Fl Leavenworth. 1,10S Wilmington, n. C. l0,6o5
Fort MCPHERSON. 443 Winchester, Va. 4,035
Fayetteville, Ark. 1910 Yorktown, Va. 1866
Virginia has the largest number of ceme-
teries-fourteen. Virginia, Tennessee and
Mississippi. in their order were the battle
states OF the struggle. The dead of the civil
war are not all gathered in national ceme-
teries-none but those of the victors. There
are many other graves in the south which
enfold soldiers as valorous as those from the
north.
Sad chance of warl Now, destitute of aid,
Falls undistin guish'd by the victor's spade.
No stone or epitaph marks their last resting
place. They too bore themselves with I'M
daunted courage, nerved to heroic endurance,
and following the right as God gave them to
see the right No people ever suffered
greater penalty for drawing the sword. They
were loyal and devoted to their cause, and
the spots of earth-home-they died battling
for, and the soil that drank up their blood is
where they rest.
Scatter bright roses DER the grave
Of every soldier, proud and brave,
Who died in gray or blue;
Who fell beneath the stripes and stars.
Or died where waved Confederate bars,
To flag and country true.
On either side of freedoms line
Bring brightest flowers to deck each shrine.
We ask not now what flag they bore;
Scan not the uniform they wore
On each supreme occasion.
We know they bravely fought and fell
To crush, withstand, resist Quell
Rebellion or invasion,
And threw their lives into the fray
In frock of blue or blouse of gray.
Nature decorates the graves of the undis-
covered dead, scattering wild flowers with
gentle hand alike upon the resting places Of
both the victors and the vanquished
In 1867 the women of Columbus, Miss, in
augurated the custom of decorating the
graves of their own as well as those of the
northern soldier dead, an event which called
forth the poem of 1.-The Blue and the Gray"
Sadly, but not with upbraiding,
The generous deed was done;
In the storm of years that fadne
No drawer battle was won.
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day;
Under the blossoms, the Blue;
Under the garlands, the Gray.
No more shall the cry sever
Or the winding rivers be red;
They Danish our anger forever
When they laurel the graves of our dead.
Under the sod and dew;
Waiting the judgment day;
Love and tears for the Blue,
Tears and love for the Gray.
MOSES FOLSOM.